Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleUniversity of California Press, 1985 M04 18 - 354 páginas This book makes several claims which ought to be stated at the outset: that Herman Melville is a recorder and interpreter of American society whose work is comparable to that of the great nineteenth-century European realists; that there was crisis of bourgeois society at midcentury on both continents, but that in America it entered politics by way of slavery and race rather than class; that the crisis called into question the ideal realm of liberal political freedom, and also that Melville was particularly sensitive to the American crisis because of the political importance of his clan and the political history of his family |
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Contenido
The Red Rover | 3 |
PARTI POLITICS | 15 |
and Christians | 42 |
SOCIETY | 153 |
Class Struggles in America | 187 |
and Confidence Men | 221 |
THE STATE | 257 |
The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd | 288 |
Notes | 319 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Paul Rogin Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |
Términos y frases comunes
Ahab Ahab's Albany Allan Melvill American antebellum authority Bartleby Battle-Pieces Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy's Boston brother buttons called captain Cass Civil confidence Confidence-Man costume crew custom house death democratic dome dream Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom Ganse Gansevoort Melville Glendinning Guert Gansevoort Hawthorne heart Henry Herman Melville hero human Ibid imagined Indian Isabel Ishmael Israel Potter Jackson lawyer Lemuel Shaw Lincoln Mackenzie Mackenzie's Manifest Destiny Maria Melvill Marx masquerade Melvill to Peter Melville wrote Melville's fiction Moby-Dick mother Mount Greylock mutiny narrator nature Neversink novel Omoo Parker paternal Pequod Peter Gansevoort Philip Spencer Pierre Pierre's pirate poem political Red Rover Redburn replaced Revolution revolutionary romance sailors San Dominick savage Shaw's ship slave slavery SM/H social society Somers Stanwix stone story symbols Tartarus Thomas Melvill Thoreau tion Tocqueville Union Vere Vere's Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America